The High School Play
by Drzakowski, Kevin, Ph.D., WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY, 2007, 115 pages; 3258642

Abstract:

The High School Play is a creative work, a full-length play in three acts. Set in suburban Richard M. Nixon High School, the play explores the notion of adolescent identity while satirizing the American educational system's artificial construction of these identities. The play is especially concerned with theatrically representing the way students view each other through flawed frameworks based on preconceived notions of race, gender, sexuality, and intelligence, as well as how this behavior shapes adolescents' construction of their own self-conceptions. The High School Play also deals with the difficulty schools experience in addressing the increasingly common controversial issues students experience as everyday social realities.

 
AdviserSteve Feffer
SchoolWESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY
SourceDAI/A 68-04, p. , Jul 2007
Source TypeDissertation
SubjectsModern literature; Theater; American literature
Publication Number3258642
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